Maybe I’m A Human, But

Kissing A Witch Is A Perilous Business. Everybody Knows It's Ten Times As Dangerous As Letting Her Touch Your Hand, Or Cut Your Hair, Or Steal Your Shoes. What Simpler Way Is There Than A Kiss To Give Power A Way Into Your Heart?

Ma's Still Nodding. "you're The One Who Matters, Though. Just You." I Shake My Head Till It's Wobbling Because There's No Just Me.

I Was Highly Aware, In Writing [the Book] Room, That There Are Unsavoury Aspects To Our Interest In Such Cases, And I Thought It Was Rather Honester To Include Discussion Of Media Representation In The Novel Itself Than To Cling To The High Moral Ground By Merely Avoiding Scenes Of Voyeurism, For Instance.

I Must Say, In The Case Of "room," Both The Book And The Film, I Don't Think Being A Lesbian Author Held Me Back At All.

When People Write To Me With Stories, They Are Never Ones That Work For Me. There's Something Mysterious About Which Ones Catch You.